UCF Celebrates the Arts 2019

Ongoing • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Titanic-Inspired Sculptures

Creative work including sculptures, displays and revolving exhibits fill the lobbies and staircase.

Ongoing • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

The Fashion of Harriett Lake

Explore costume pieces curated by UCF faculty member Kristina Tollefson for a behind-the-scenes look at what you see on-stage at Theatre UCF.

Ongoing • Off-Site

UCF Student Book Arts Competition

An exhibition of winning entries from 13 years of annual book arts competition at the UCF Libraries.

Ongoing • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

CREATE Sculptures & Illustrations

Creative work including sculptures, displays and revolving exhibits fill the lobbies and staircase.

Ongoing • Lobbies and public spaces throughout the center

Station Eleven-Inspired Artworks

Advanced Painting students respond visually to Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.

Friday, April 5, 2019, 5:30 p.m. • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Tableaux Vivants

A festival favorite, “Living Art” returns to Dr. Phillips Center! 160+ students recreate famous artworks and model in life-size paintings.

Friday, April 5, 2019, 5:30 p.m. • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Making it New Again: Modernism and Magazines

Student magazines created for Dr. Louise Kane’s Literary Modernism course are new versions of some of the vintage arts and poetry magazines from the 1910s and 1920s that students studied as part of the course.

Friday, April 5, 2019, 7:30 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

Titanic: The Musical

Yeston and Stone’s Tony Award-winning musical examines the lives of passengers – first class, middle class and steerage – aboard the famed luxury liner.

Saturday, April 6, 2019, 1:00 p.m. • Seneff Arts Plaza

Creative City Project's Immersive Projection Installation

Enter a world of immersive art in this large-scale projection on Seneff Plaza. Use the motion of your body to transform the projected environment.

Saturday, April 6, 2019, 1:30 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

The Last Paving Stone

In this family-friendly performance, everyone is celebrating the covering of the last unpaved ground on the planet. Everyone except Ito, who risks everything to share what only she can hear.

Saturday, April 6, 2019, 4:30 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

Why Write? Writing & Rhetoric as Dialogic Art

Faculty and students from the UCF Department of Writing and Rhetoric highlight the importance of writing and visual rhetorics to building community and promoting social justice. Contribute to our “Why Write?” board and hear from undergrad and graduate students about their research in writing and literacy.

Saturday, April 6, 2019, 8:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

Life/Ways

A personal interactive storytelling project where students create two short digital narratives.

Saturday, April 6, 2019, 8:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

Project Spotlight presents First Miss

This full-length performance follows Michele and Grant from their “emotionally sweaty” prom dance floor to the dumpster-fire days of their early twenties as they try to figure out why rom-coms make first kisses look so deceptively simple.

Sunday, April 7, 2019, 4:00 p.m. • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Service Learning to Promote, Understand and Engage in the Arts

Students from the Nicholson School of Communication and Media and Burnett Honors College present their service learning projects.

Sunday, April 7, 2019, 4:00 p.m. • Seneff Arts Plaza

Thriving Through the Arts

Through drumming, dancing, photography and other collaborative art-making projects, explore the intersectionality between the arts and wellness.

Sunday, April 7, 2019, 4:30 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

Staged Reading: Scenes Inspired by Station Eleven

UCF students read scenes inspired by Emily St. John Mandel's novel Station Eleven.

Sunday, April 7, 2019, 5:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

UCF New Music Ensemble

Original music by UCF student, faculty and alumni composers inspired by documentary video, personal journeys and social bonds

Sunday, April 7, 2019, 5:00 p.m. • Seneff Arts Plaza

Creative Clash

Teams of artists armed with black markers race against the clock to create large-format artwork. The theme will be announced seconds before the start of the event, so come cheer on the artists and help choose a winner at the end of the competition. The finished artworks will be displayed throughout the center for the duration of the festival.

Sunday, April 7, 2019, 6:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

Author Talk with Emily St. John Mandel

Discuss Emily St. John Mandel’s audacious, darkly glittering novel Station Eleven with the award-winning author herself. Book signing to follow.

Sunday, April 7, 2019, 7:30 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

UCF Choral Concert: Building Bridges

UCF choirs return with an eclectic program of music and instruments centered on the theme of building bridges.

Monday, April 8, 2019, 6:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

The Art of Puerto Rico

Learn about the art, artists and architecture of Puerto Rico. Aprenda sobre el arte, los artistas, la arquitectura de Puerto Rico.

Monday, April 8, 2019, 6:30 p.m. • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Jones High School Museum Digital History Exhibit

This virtual exhibit features artifacts from Jones High School, founded as the Orlando Colored School in 1895 during the time of Jim Crow.

Monday, April 8, 2019, 7:30 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

UCF Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band Concert

More than 100 of the finest musicians at UCF perform together in a special concert.

Monday, April 8, 2019, 8:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

El Wiz

In a Latinx homage to the classic story, El Wiz is a heartwarming musical tale of faith and familia.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 7:00 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

Choir Invitational Concert

400+ elementary students are invited to learn from UCF Choral faculty, UCF Choral Music Education students, UCF Choir members, UCF alumni, and nationally‐known clinicians and retired faculty culminating into one performance.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 7:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

Playback UCF

An interactive form of improvisational theatre in which audience members share stories from their lives and watch them "played back" using music and metaphor

Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 8:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

UCF Brass Ensembles

In various ensembles, UCF students present a concert celebrating significant musical works for brass.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 6:00 p.m. • Lobbies and public spaces throughout the center

I Can Study Video Games?

Students and staff from UCF’s graduate game-development program present an interactive installation that demonstrates the technical and creative aspects of game development.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 7:30 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

Creative Careers Alumni Panel

A diverse panel of UCF alumni with careers in animation, graphic design, game design and more speaks about their processes and careers, and answers questions from the audience.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 7:30 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

UCF Percussion with The Percussion Collective

This concert features “Seaborne,” a percussive art soundscape and visual celebration of our endangered oceans.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 8:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

UCF Woodwind Ensembles Concert

Features original music from different eras and performances by a variety of UCF student wind ensembles.

Friday, April 12, 2019, 5:30 p.m. • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Virtual Reality Experience: The Middle Passage

Witness, understand and empathize life as a captive African through the middle passage in this powerful virtual reality immersion project.

Friday, April 12, 2019, 7:30 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

Genius + Soul

UCF's Flying Horse Big Band plays Ray Charles with special guests Rob Paparozzi, Vance Villastrigo, Kenny Washington and more.

April 12 – April 14, 2019 • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

UCF Opera presents The Tender Land

Set in Kansas in 1930, The Tender Land combines the charms of rural Americana with a tale of innocence lost.

Saturday, April 13, 2019, 6:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

Exodus|Pilgrimage: UCF Honors Lo Nuestro

In this performance art procession, award-winning interdisciplinary artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz examines forced migration due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico.

Saturday, April 13, 2019, 7:30 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

Film Night

An evening dedicated to incredible stories captured on film and the premieres of animated shorts by UCF students.

Sunday, April 14, 2019, 12:30 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

National Young Composers Challenge Composium

See the next generation of America’s most talented composers ages 13 to 18 have their original pieces performed, discussed, rehearsed and recorded in front of a live audience by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra led by maestro Christopher Wilkins.

Sunday, April 14, 2019, 12:30 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

Pip-Squeak

Using comedy, magic tricks, juggling and costumes, Tony Brent teaches children how to cope with being bullied.

Sunday, April 14, 2019, 3:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

When Pigs Fly

A multisensory story experience for very young audiences (0-6) and their grown-ups!